My first poem was in 2022 spurred by a personal event, and I shared it on Twitter. I received a positive response and there was no turning back after that. Find my short writes and poems on X @bitspurt.
Here's a sampling.
THE NORTHERN LIGHTS
Dancing across the heavens
In green, pink, purple and red
They have had everyone baffled
Are they the spirit of the dead
Calling from the yonder?
Or are they the glow from
The Valkyrie shield and armor?
Is it the Arctic fire foxes
Raising sparks to the sky?
Or is it the atoms and molecules
Lighting up as they excite and decay?
The Aurora Borealis is one of a kind
Not to leave its sister
The Aurora Australis behind
Whatever they are to you personally
They excite and enthrall you
With their unmistakable beauty
CRUEL INTENTIONS
Bright-eyed pal
Trusting, oblivious,
Snack-worthy, delicious.
Candid cam captures
Puckered lips and
Cruel intentions
THE PRINCESS
Here comes the princess
Convene the Joustmasters
Size up your opponent
Get to be the first proponent
Duel, joust, wrestle and spar
The spoils are not very far
WOODLAND MAGIC
Woodland magic descends
As innocent beauty transcends
Forest bliss, golden hour's kiss
Starlit dreams, a fawn's hopes
TRIVIAL PURSUIT
For a life spent
In trivial pursuit
It’s not enough
To gallivant
It’s imperative
That you flaunt --
Garner all the buzz
You could want
RABBIT HOLE
Adventure down
This rabbit hole of choice
Scamper through tunnels
Find a chamber
Ingest, rest, or nest
(not to forget, digest)
It’s never time lost
Explore, preserve, perpetuate
Hardy knowledge, stories of survival
QUANTUM ADVENTURE
Vanquishes
Her loneliness
With adventure,
Trekking deep
Into the minuscule
Quantum sphere
NATURE'S LOVE SONG
Soothing birdsong,
Bubbling brook,
Acoustic harmony
In every cranny and nook,
Nature's love song.
WAY BACK HOME
Unfamiliar terrain, though
Not entirely unacquainted
It's nostalgia calling me
Oh that déjà vu of
having been here before
Hopes of finding it again
What else could it be?
All I ever wanted was
Find my way back home
PATRIOT PRIDE
With a reminder a year of
Everything I hold dear
Puffin' with patriot pride
Laying all ground realities aside
In fact and fantasy I stand astride
THE ROYAL IMPERATIVE
Kneel before royalty
And starkly lower your dignity
Lest there be serious penalty
Not following the procedure
Sure leads to their anger
Your obedience is their prerogative
Quickly turned into an imperative
RIP DEAR ECHO
an echo with an ego
moving grooving
set on proving
it's the original
not merely a parallel
not a repetition
nor reverberation
insists it's bona fide
and not copied
oblivious to its nature
and its definitive future
a copy of its master
it ceases to matter
A MIND FREE OF FEAR
A great discovery gets made
or someone gets a good grade
Let's stop and ponder a bit
Instead of wondering how they do it
A brain can figure out anything
provided it's thinking n feeling
and fully functioning
The only caveat being
the mind has to be clear
And free of all fear